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"Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the
grave. Our birth is nothing but our death begun." Bishop Hall
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Welcome to another edition of Dead End.
Let us take a moment to say goodbye to those who have died.
They include former Texas Gov. Ann Richards, German author
Joachim Fest, pioneer aerial photographer William Garnett,
and author Gerald Green.
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ANN RICHARDS, FORMER TEXAS GOVERNOR, DEAD AT 73
Ann Richards, the former Texas Governor with a tough-talking
persona and trademark white hair, has died from complications
of esophageal cancer. She was 73. Richards burst onto the
political scene at the 1988 Democratic National Convention
in Atlanta with her tart keynote address. Two years later,
she was elected as the governor of Texas - only the second
woman to hold that post. She served as the state's 45th
governor until upset in 1994 when she was defeated for re-
election by challenger George W. Bush. Richards did not let
her loss keep her from the national stage. She continued to
speak out on behalf of liberal causes, did regular comment-
ations on CNN and appeared in national advertising campaigns.
Richards will likely be remembered for her always unconvent-
ional persona. When she was almost 60, she began riding a
Harley-Davidson motorcycle because, she said, "I thought I
needed to do something kind of jazzy."
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JOACHIM FEST, AUTHOR AND EXPERT ON HITLER, DEAD AT 79
The German author of "Hitler: A Biography," Joachim Fest,
has died in Kronberg, Germany, at age 79. Fest, who was
editor of the conservative daily Frankfurter Allgemeine
Zeitung, died Monday at his home, The New York Times
reported Wednesday. No cause of death was given. Among
Fest's other historical works were "The Face of the Third
Reich: Portraits of the Nazi Leadership" in 1970, "Plotting
Hitler's Death: The Story of the German Resistance" in 1996
and 2004's "Inside Hitler's Bunker: The Last Days of the
Third Reich." His comprehensive "Hitler: A Biography" was
released in the United States in 1973 and had its most
recent reprint in 2000, the Times said. Fest also wrote the
script for Bernd Eichinger's film, "The Downfall," about the
Hitler's final days in the bunker. Although Fest married in
1959 and had two sons there was no word on his survivors,
the Times said.
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WILLIAM GARNETT, PIONEER OF AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY, DEAD AT 89
Photographer William A. Garnett, who pioneered the art of
aerial photography, has died in California at age 89. Garnett
-- whose half-century career spanned police, commercial,
sports and art photography -- died Aug. 24 at his home in
Napa, Calif., the Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday. Garnett
may have not been the first photographer to shoot from the
sky, but the images he snapped from his Cessna 170B in 1955
expanded the boundaries of what could be done with aerial
photography, the Times said. Among his better known photos
were "Sand Dune Number 1 Death Valley" and "Snow Geese Over
Lake Buena Vista." He won three Guggenheim awards that helped
finance his art work, the newspaper said. He also served on
the faculties at the University of California Berkley and
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Garnett is survived by
his wife, Eula Beal Garnett, three sons and three grandchildren.
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GERALD GREEN, AUTHOR, DEAD AT 84
Author, screenwriter and NBC's "Today" show co-creator
Gerald Green has died of pneumonia in Norwalk, Conn., at age
84. Green was born Gerald Greenberg in New York and lived in
New Canaan, Conn., and Boca Raton, Fla. He died Tuesday, his
wife Marlene told The New York Times. He wrote 20 novels,
several works of nonfiction and an Emmy-award winning screen-
play for the 1978 NBC miniseries "Holocaust." A book he wrote
based on the screenplay won the Dag Hammarskjold International
Prize the following year. Two of his novels, "The Last Angry
Man" and "His Majesty O'Keefe," were adapted for the screen
in 1959 and 1954 respectively. As a producer for NBC News,
Green helped create "Today," which first broadcast 1952.
Green is survived by his wife, three children, three step-
children and 20 grandchildren.
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Notable deaths this week in history...
In 1982, Grace Patricia Kelly, the Princess of Monaco who
was also an established actress, died at the age of 52.
In 1989, Robert Penn Warren, whose complex poetry and novels
drawn from Southern life formed an intricate mirror of the
human experience, died at the age of 84.
In 2003, actor John Ritter, who is fondly remembered for his
roles in television comedy, died while in surgery after being
rushed to the hospital. He was 54.
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